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After 9/11: our own low, dishonest decade - Pankraj Mishra, The Guardian"In fact, the cumulative effect of sparsely reported carnages immunised us against sympathy with their many faceless and speechless victims in the wider world. We were hardly aware, let alone troubled, when entire cities and ways of lives were destroyed. More than 30,000 people ( Read more... )

Feels hypocritical to say this as a member of a decidedly non-riotous population at the moment* but when it comes to meaningful window-smashing, I feel like those young Londoners and out-of-town Britons weighing stones and Molotov cocktails in their hands might want to take a page out of the Arab Spring book. Not without violence, sure. But a ( Read more... )

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Over at "Plan Columbia and Beyond," a blog I came across during my research for the paper, the indictment of Bush's FTA push is done in a much more intelligent and organized fashion than I could manage.

Our President thinks Free Trade with Columbia is a spectacular idea.Now, if I hadn't so recently written a paper on the ramifications of U.S. aid to Columbia earlier this week, this might not have gotten to me the way it does now, but I can't believe if the U.S. is honestly committed to helping Columbia deal with its drug problem that this is a ( Read more... )

It's a good thing none of my drinking buddies are Russian, or I might be in serious trouble.

...oh my god.

It's rather frightening, as this was going to be a major plot point in the sequel to Season.

In other news,

Hopefully, there'll be some substance behind the show.

Inevitably sounding like a broken record, our Commander-in-Chief plunders history and sprinkles it on us, hoping to legitimize a many-times-de-legitimized crusade.

And...

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